The first large scale laser scanning project in Sweden for the purpose of forest inventory was started by a regional forestry board in central Sweden. The objective was to compare laser scanning with traditional operational methods for large area forest variable estimations. Laser data were acquired for a 50 km forest area in central Sweden with approximately 1.2 laser measurements per square m...

This document presents design pattern recommendations for building Grid applications based on the principles of service orientation and using existing Web Services technologies. The design pattern described in this document is a subset of the Web Services Grid Application Framework (WSGAF) approach to building Grid applications since it only focuses on the use of the Web Services Interoperabili...

Background: Hirsutism is defined as the presence of terminalhairs with a male-like pattern in women, due to the increasedlevels of androgens or increased responses of the target organs toandrogens. Facial hirsutism has a negative effect on the quality oflife in female patients. Among the many therapeutic modalitie...

Large-scale pattern recognition for data mining requires significant processing resources. Distributed pattern recognition provides an avenue for achieving large-scale pattern recognition by using a state-of-theart data classifier for fast tracking large-scale data analyses. In this paper, we will introduce a framework for distributed pattern recognition which is grid enabled and employs a dist...

BACKGROUND For visualizing large-scale biochemical network maps, it is important to calculate the coordinates of molecular nodes quickly and to enhance the understanding or traceability of them. The grid layout is effective in drawing compact, orderly, balanced network maps with node label spaces, but existing grid layout algorithms often require a high computational cost because they have to c...

There is a need for optically transparent surfaces which repel water and eliminate ice formation in applications, such as solar power generation. Surface microtexture has played an important role controlling wetting properties adhesion pressure. Here we report the effect of periodic surface on pressure Polydimethylsiloxane. Laser ablation was used to produce aluminum substrate transferred onto ...

Transient thermal field in laser surface hardening treatment of medium carbon steel was analyzed by employing both three-dimensional analytical model and finite element model. In finite element model the laser beam was considered as a moving plane heat flux to establish the temperature rise distribution in the work-piece, while in analytical model laser beam was considered as an internal heat s...